Certain Places
August 26, 2020[…] the friend’s partner is not at all interested in baseball. She and he are restrained in their shared enthusiasm for the idea; however, their wife knows of her fondness for the game and the […]
[…] the friend’s partner is not at all interested in baseball. She and he are restrained in their shared enthusiasm for the idea; however, their wife knows of her fondness for the game and the […]
[…] time, pah-haps,” she said. She wiggled away, like a movie queen, turned and laughed, her whole face breaking pixie-like into squeezed-up lines of wrinkle. Her tribute to wantonness—even in sport—brought flickers of embarrassment into […]
[…] know all along?) By the time we arrive home, the rain has stopped and the clouds are breaking up. Seth, running on the infinite energy of youth, rounds up his friends for a short […]
[…] America—to use language I learned in church—a “city on a hill,” an example to the big wide world my extended family came from, or was it “Babylon,” worldwide marketer of wickedness, where wrong was […]
[…] my terms. By “creative” writing I do not mean the usual writing done by an historian, a newspaperman, nor one employed in public relations or advertising. While such people employ the same tools—words—and may […]
[…] mental, moral, and emotional development. Spirits were free agents, capable of making moral commitments and capable of breaking them. As free agents they had the power to distinguish the good from the bad and […]
[…] with the imprint of her scrawny fingers, something lumpy in tin foil, two pages of the Daily News wadded into balls, cartons of face powder, and one drop earring with a green banana on […]
[…] obtain better homes.” Many were outlaws, “outcasts,” or “lovers of office.” Their life was one of “Sabbath breaking, profanity, horse-racing, idleness and . . . all too prevalent drunken ness.” By contrast, the Saints […]
[…] Association. The group was thus not affiliated with any religious body when the missionaries arrived with the news of the Book of Mormon. Rigdon sought evidence which would substantiate Pratt’s claim that the Book […]
[…] members (and leaders), a lack of confidence between leaders and members, and the high social costs of breaking other cultural expectations. In all fairness, the LDS Church has worked in the past decades to […]